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50 – Mall Rats Part 1

I didn’t turn 18 until my fourth week on campus. This made going to the local mall interesting, as they had very recently put in place a rule where anyone under 18 had to be accompanied by an adult.

This confused me years later when I got carded buying a ticket to an R-rated movie. Wouldn’t I have been kicked out if I were under 17? (I was 20 and wearing an RPI hoodie at the time, for the record.)

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I do believe under 17 is allowed to go straight to the movie theater and nowhere else all by themselves, IIRC. Besides, I was often in the mall going party, which included a certain amount of the guards probably thinking I was someone in the party’s father.